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The Pardoner's Tale Quiz

Authored by Ms Hanson

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

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The Pardoner's Tale Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Of what use is the bone?

It could be used over and over again to make nutritious soups for devoted Christians who were too poor to afford meat.

It could be used as a defense against attackers. It caused extreme pain anywhere it touched someone with evil thoughts.

It brought good luck.

It would cure animals' snake bites or sores. It was also a cure for jealousy.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

For what use is the mitten and under what condition will it work?

It will provide the wearer with extremely strong hands and arms if his thoughts are for good works like farming rather than evil works like murder.

It will cure most illnesses if the wearer has made a pilgrimage.

It will increase the yield of grain provided the wearer has made a donation to the church.

It will keep the wearer from adultery if he says at least one prayer each day.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Describe the "trick" which has been worth a hundred marks a year to the Pardoner.

The Pardoner has a bird that lights on the shoulder of someone who is about to be forgiven. In reality, the Pardoner looks over his audience, finds someone who looks rich, and signals the bird to land there. The forgiven sinners usually make a large donation.

He preaches that the very sinful members of his flock cannot make an offering, but that the virtuous members may, and he will absolve them.

He sells small bottles of water that he says is holy water. It is supposed to wash away the sins of the person who drinks it.

He has one person in the congregation stand up and tell how much more holy his life has been and how he feels spiritually fulfilled since he gave all of his worldly goods to the church.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the Pardoner's hidden purpose? What is he actually supposed to do?

His real purpose is to make money. He is supposed to be concerned with saving souls.

His purpose is to convert people and save their souls. That is what he does.

His real purpose is to save souls. He is supposed to be collecting money for his church.

His real purpose is to look for a rich wife. He is supposed to be telling people about god.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What bargain or agreement did the rioters make at the tavern?

They agreed to stop rioting if the Pardoner could find wives for all of them.

They agreed to stop all sin within a hundred miles of the tavern.

They agreed to hunt down Death.

They agreed to go with the Pardoner and earn money for the church.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

They met an old man as they began their journey. What was the old man's problem?

He had been very sinful in his youth. He could not die until he had confessed each sin to a different priest or Pardoner, and made a donation to each of them.

He would gain eternal life if he could find a beautiful young woman to love and marry him.

He would keep getting new illnesses unless he could convert at least one person a day. Most people didn't want to listen to him, because he was so old and diseased.

He had to roam the earth until he had found someone who would trade youth for age.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Where does the old man send the rioters?

He sent them to the Holy Land.

He sent them up the road to an oak tree.

He sent them to a hidden cave in the forest.

He sent them to the shrine at Canterbury.

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